The Wholesale Salary Survey reports compensation data for 131 benchmark jobs related to the wholesaling of merchandise (durable and nondurable goods or raw materials). The survey includes wholesale merchants, distributors, jobbers, drop shippers, and import/export merchants. The industry survey is available by geographic area (US Region, US National, or Canadian National) for $589.

The Wholesale Salary Survey documents market-based pay data for 8 executive and 123 non-management salary benchmark jobs from up to three databases: digitized public sources, ERI Assessor Series data, and direct participants. The following information is reported for each job title (salary data are shown in means, medians, and percentile cuts):

Annual Salary

Incentive/Variable Pay

Total Direct Annual Compensation

Job Description

Graph with a Trend Line and Data Points

Selected Characteristics of the Occupation (SCO)*

Survey information is solicited through traditional mail, email, and online questionnaires. Each data submission is thoroughly screened by our team of experienced researchers prior to inclusion in a survey. No attempt is made to alter incumbent data as reported other than to normalize collected compensation amounts to a common date. Data collection begins October 1 and ends on March 31. Survey results are published annually in August, with an effective data date of March 31 of the given survey year.